Carl Lundström, one of the persons convicted in The Pirate Bay trial, will not be going to jail for his role in the operations of The Pirate Bay. The millionaire, who gave the site a crucial helping hand with hardware and other services in its early days, was sentenced to four months in prison but will now spend that time in a Swedish apartment. He will be electronically monitored and allowed to leave in order to attend a government-arranged job.

While Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm were grabbing most of the headlines, a fourth defendant in The Pirate Bay trial – Swedish businessman Carl Lundström – was trying to keep a lower profile.

That would not prove easy. Famous in his own right for being the grandson of Karl Lundström, founder of the world’s largest crisp bread producer Wasabröd, Carl Lundström made a fortune when the company was sold in the early 80’s. But it would be his involvement with The Pirate Bay that would shoot him onto the international stage.

Lundström provided an early Pirate Bay with structural support through his company Rix Telecom/Port80 and in 2009 he paid the price for that assistance when a Swedish court found him and his co-defendants guilty of copyright infringement offenses.

In 2010 the Court of Appeal upheld the original guilty verdict but reduced Lundström’s sentence from 1 year in jail to 4 months and ordered him to pay his share of 46 million kronor ($6.78m) in damages. Last month a Supreme Court appeal was rejected and Lundström’s sentence was made final.

Now Lundström is ready to serve his sentence and perhaps surprisingly he won’t be going to jail at all. Under Swedish law anyone sentenced to spend less than six months in jail can apply to serve their time in the community. Lundström applied and was accepted as a suitable candidate.

The businessman, who will turn 52-years-old next month, will leave his home in Switzerland and return to Sweden to serve his sentence. There he will spend four months electronically tagged in a Gothenburg apartment. He will only be allowed to leave in order to attend a job arranged for him by the authorities.

“He will have employment arranged, it is a regulated schedule that is very strict,” probation officer Sven Simonsson told TT.

Although Lundström is liable to pay his share of 46 million kronor ($6.78m) in damages, Swedish authorities have only been able to find assets worth 225,000 kronor ($33,149).

The three other defendants – Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm – are yet to be informed how their sentences will be served. None are currently living in Sweden and Svartholm hasn’t been heard from in a long time, leading Sunde to speculate recently that he might even be dead.